Yale to Offer ‘Green’ Building Design and Development Program
Environment: Yale, Spring 2006
A new advanced-degree program that puts a “green” spin on architectural design will be offered at Yale University in the fall.
“Few universities are in a position to do this better than Yale,” said Robert Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture. “The long leadership traditions of the schools of Architectureand Forestry & Environmental Studies,with the unmatched potential offered by their combined intellectual expertiseand physical facilities, uniquely position these schools, and thus Yale, to establish a singularly innovative and relevant academic program in sustainable, restorative environmental design.”
Sustainable, restorative environmental design seeks to minimize adverse effects on the natural environment and human health and enhance the beneficial contact between people and nature in buildings.
“Much of current design and development, especially in urban areas,has fostered environmental degradation,excessive waste, pollution and unsustainable resource use, while at the same time separating, if not alienating, people from the natural environment,” said Stephen Kellert, Ph.D. ’71,Tweedy/Ordway Professor of Social Ecology at F&ES. Students in the four-year, 126credit program will take 90 course credits at the architecture school and 36 credits at the environment school, and upon graduation they will receive master’s degrees in architecture and environmental management.
“Few universities are in a position to do this better than Yale,” said Robert Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture. “The long leadership traditions of the schools of Architectureand Forestry & Environmental Studies,with the unmatched potential offered by their combined intellectual expertiseand physical facilities, uniquely position these schools, and thus Yale, to establish a singularly innovative and relevant academic program in sustainable, restorative environmental design.”
Sustainable, restorative environmental design seeks to minimize adverse effects on the natural environment and human health and enhance the beneficial contact between people and nature in buildings.
“Much of current design and development, especially in urban areas,has fostered environmental degradation,excessive waste, pollution and unsustainable resource use, while at the same time separating, if not alienating, people from the natural environment,” said Stephen Kellert, Ph.D. ’71,Tweedy/Ordway Professor of Social Ecology at F&ES. Students in the four-year, 126credit program will take 90 course credits at the architecture school and 36 credits at the environment school, and upon graduation they will receive master’s degrees in architecture and environmental management.
